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  • CA: Mayor set to appoint new schools aide to ease takeover bid (Villaraigosa taps Ramon Cortines)

    07/25/2006 10:15:36 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 238+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 7/25/06 | AP - Los Angeles
    LOS ANGELES In his bid for more power over public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is set to appoint a veteran educator to a post designed to ease tensions between City Hall and public school officials opposed to the plan, the Los Angeles Times reported. Ramon C. Cortines, who served six months as interim superintendent of the L.A. Unified school district in 2000, is scheduled to be named deputy mayor for education, youth and families Tuesday. Cortines did not say whether he supports state legislation that would grant Villaraigosa say in district management a proposal that has drawn fire from the...